Google Inc. today announced it is testing a preview release of Gmail, a free search-based webmail service with a storage capacity of up to eight billion bits of information, the equivalent of 500,000 pages of email per user.

WebPosition Gold is a search engine optimization software solution. Fortune 500 companies and thousands of other organizations around the world use WebPosition Gold to optimize their Web pages to attract greater numbers of qualified visitors to their sites.

Topix.net and KeepMedia Form Content and Co-Marketing Partnership

Visitors to Topix.net who search or browse among the sites thousands of topical news pages will be able to dive deeper into premium and archival content via content from KeepMedia, including thousands of articles that cannot be retrieved by any other news search engines.

People now have easier access to search the Web via a query box integrated directly into the instant messaging application. Yahoo Messenger consumers can also type search shortcuts directly into their conversations and share results instantaneously with friends.

The new SightPoint personalization technology automatically rates new search results based on their similarity to results the user has clicked on before. SightPoint uses Bayesian statistics, made popular by spam email filters.

About the author

Chris Sherman is a frequent contributor to several information industry journals. He's written several books, including The McGraw-Hill CD ROM Handbook and The Invisible Web: Uncovering Information Sources Search Engines Can't See, co-authored with Gary Price. Chris has written about search and search engines since 1994, when he developed online searching tutorials for several clients. From 1998 to 2001, he was About.com's Web Search Guide.

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